Ed Price wrote:

Obviously, if you don't take the
time to distill the OP's comments, then you bury your reply under his
verbiage. Perhaps one of the best arguments for editing is that you have to
think about what's important in the previous post. That allows you to focus
your reply.

What an excellent philosophy.

Perhaps the top-posters and non-editors are merely guilty of lack of
focus and an ability to think.

from
Aero Spike

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:28:46 +0100, Spike
wrote:

Ed Price wrote:

Obviously, if you don't take the
time to distill the OP's comments, then you bury your reply under his
verbiage. Perhaps one of the best arguments for editing is that you have to
think about what's important in the previous post. That allows you to focus
your reply.

What an excellent philosophy.

Perhaps the top-posters and non-editors are merely guilty of lack of
focus and an ability to think.

from
Aero Spike


Or are just unwilling to trace over ground already many-times
plowed.

wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:28:46 +0100, Spike
wrote:

Ed Price wrote:

Obviously, if you don't take the
time to distill the OP's comments, then you bury your reply under his
verbiage. Perhaps one of the best arguments for editing is that you have to
think about what's important in the previous post. That allows you to focus
your reply.

What an excellent philosophy.

Perhaps the top-posters and non-editors are merely guilty of lack of
focus and an ability to think.


Or are just unwilling to trace over ground already many-times plowed.

Or ploughed.

One thing that top-posters fail to recognise is that not all ng users
set their readers to order posts by thread. It is quite possible, with
a suitable newsreader, to order posts by time and date, rather than
subject.

Unfortunately, those who merely bang the Reply key to top-post their
answer frequently have the point to which they are replying way off
the bottom of the screen, which it is not immediately obvious without
scrolling down.

Top-posting also encorages the lazy or incompetent to avoid properly
trimming their posts.

There are even those who used to trim and bottom-post who now top-post
exclusively, but who quote the RFC as if it is some religious mantra
in some form of self-justification.

from
Aero Spike

Spike:

We construct our messages on machines which were built to do anything. If you
have the correct hardware/software/knowledge you can have a "virtual world"
where all is exactly as you would like.

Still the computer illiterate scream for others to do it for them, clip the
messages, format, etc...

Get a newsreader which does it the way you would like. Or, write a plug-in to
the current newsreader you are using which will do it the way you like (others,
if the problem is a real one, may have already written one for you--search the
net.)

No, there are no mothers here to take care of you, this in not like CW, it is
not required you read these posts....

.... get a clue, the format of newsgroups has changed, adapt or die ...

John

"Spike" wrote in message
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wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:28:46 +0100, Spike
wrote:

Ed Price wrote:

Obviously, if you don't take the
time to distill the OP's comments, then you bury your reply under his
verbiage. Perhaps one of the best arguments for editing is that you have to
think about what's important in the previous post. That allows you to focus
your reply.

What an excellent philosophy.

Perhaps the top-posters and non-editors are merely guilty of lack of
focus and an ability to think.


Or are just unwilling to trace over ground already many-times plowed.

Or ploughed.

One thing that top-posters fail to recognise is that not all ng users
set their readers to order posts by thread. It is quite possible, with
a suitable newsreader, to order posts by time and date, rather than
subject.

Unfortunately, those who merely bang the Reply key to top-post their
answer frequently have the point to which they are replying way off
the bottom of the screen, which it is not immediately obvious without
scrolling down.

Top-posting also encorages the lazy or incompetent to avoid properly
trimming their posts.

There are even those who used to trim and bottom-post who now top-post
exclusively, but who quote the RFC as if it is some religious mantra
in some form of self-justification.

from
Aero Spike